Jerykk wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 23:19:Except weapon and armor degradation actually promotes tactical combat. If you're using a low durability weapon, you'll want to focus on calculated, high-damage strikes, like backstabs, and if you have a low durability armor, you'll want to avoid getting hit altogether. Conversely, if you high durability weapons and armor, you can just wade into battle. As such, degradation adds long-term consequences to the choices you make in battle.

That's a nice idea, but it doesn't work in practice because you get metric tons of "repair hammers", so degradation becomes utterly meaningless and nothing more than a chore.